Systemd restarting A while ago I had a service that would need to be restarted after it had a cool down of about 2 hours… I had a stanza that stated Restart=always RestartSec=7200 which was cool because it would just autorestart when it died. At the time the restart would work just fine after the cooldown. The catch that I ran in to was because of that timer, if I logged in and tried to start it when it was in a failed state, the service would hang....
Splunk HTTP collector python script Hey the http collector is awesome so let use it in python to send things to stuff… This is going to just take a dictionary as event data and then pass that to the http collector using only the request library . You will need to have a collector enabled for splunk and a token generated. #!/usr/bin/env python import time import requests import urllib3 ##turns off the warning that is generated below because using self signed ssl cert urllib3....
git Git should know better and totally commit and add files that I was working on last night. I left an uncommited file sitting on a laptop at my house when I went to work today… Rookie mistake. for ALL the repos $ git config --global user.name "John Doe" $ git config --global user.email "john@doe.org" only for oen repo $ git config user.name "John Doe" $ git config user.email "john@doe.org" git aliases are cool add to your ....
Splunk and nginx Doing some splunkjs work from a docker container, and hosting it out of nginx, which means I needed to configure a proxy pass using some load balancing in order to access the splunk cluster, this was a little tricky because of session persistence and https. nginx load balancing Luckily there are some good pslunk blogs out there that help out configuring-nginx-with-splunk-rest-api-sdk-compatibility and some good reading about splunkjs read them both using-the-splunkjs-stack-part-1...